AA to Philly and New Orleans

By 6am on Saturday, temps had dropped even further and it was donwright frigid. I dropped off my rental car and ran to the elevator to escape the cold. The walkway to the US Departure terminal.

I headed for the NEXUS priority lane which moved like at a snails pace.

Another emotional support dog, no doubt.

After clearing customs, the usual walk to the concourse thru the duty free store nonsense.

Montreal-Philadelphia

AA 4102

CRJ-200

7:20a-9:16a (sked)

7:15a-8:45a (actual)

January 15, 2017

Seat 1C

Welcome to one of the least comfortable airplanes ever made. Ordinarily I wouldn't go near this plane, but this was the fastest way to get to New Orleans today.

Apparently I was the only passenger with elite status today as I had the entire first 3 rows to myself... including 1C which is the least worst seat on the plane.

No idea what this Delta 757 was doing here today as the biggest plane DL schedules to YUL is a CRJ-900, although the NY Rangers were in town to play the Canadiens tonight so it may have been their charter.

Excellent service today from our FA Martha, who had fun barking at kettles that insisted on standing during push back and taxi.

PHL's bus terminal which is much nicer than LAX.

Yeah, let's encourage even more phony emotional support dogs. Oy.

With 45 minutes to spare, I headed for the A/B Admirals Club using my status matched Air Berlin Gold card for entry, although the sour lounge dragon had no idea what it was and gave me plenty of grief for bothering her this morning. Yeah, welcome to Philadelphia.

Spacious and quite attractive, at least when on one is there like this morning.

At around T-40, I headed downtairs for the quick walk to near by Gate B3.

Philadelphia-New Orleans
AA 1744
ERJ-190
10:30a-12:45p (sked)
10:30a-12:25p (actual)
January 15, 2017
Seat 1F then 2F

I was originally in 1F but moved back to 2F to get two seats to myself.

Lunch today was a choice of turkey sandwich or chicken salad. When you have low expectations, you won't be disappointed. And as expected, AA delivered. Yeah, that looks good.